...Madame Secretary: When you arrived at State, al-Qaeda in Iraq had been crushed and expelled from Anbar. The Iraqigovernment had from Basra to Sadr City fought and defeated the radical, Iranian-proxy Shiite militias. Yet today these militias...

...Iranian-armed Shiite militias came to be leading the fight against ISIS terrorists west of Baghdad is that the Iraqigovernment begged for their help. It's in Tehran's interest to defeat ISIS even more than in Washington's. Can this...

BAGHDAD (AP) - Iraq's parliament officially named Haider al-Abadi the country's new prime minister late Monday and approved most of his proposed Cabinet amid calls by the Arab League for its members to combat the Sunni militant group violently advancing across Iraq and Syria. Lawmakers approved all of the candidates proposed for Iraq's new government, with the exception of a few posts, namely the defense and interior ministers. Al-Abadi requested an additional week to name them.

Baghdad called President Barack Obama's bluff, and he came through. He had refused to provide air support to Iraqigovernment forces until the Iraqis got rid of their divisive sectarian prime minister.They did. He responded.With the support...

...a U.S. terrorist list.Obama has shown steely nerve in all this, refusing to commit any military aid to the Iraqigovernment until it corrects the problems that permitted the rise of ISIS. The pressure on Obama must have been immense, but...

...al-Maliki. That's a major foreign policy achievement. It represents the removal of a roadblock to a stable Iraqigovernment, which leaves no vacuum for ISIS to fill.Talking about dealing with ISIS in Syria, Obama explained that...

...administration doesn't think the militants pose any immediate threat of an attack in the U.S. The responseThe U.S. already has launched about 150 airstrikes on Islamic State targets inside Iraq, at the invitation of the Iraqigovernment.

...degree of accountability for the Iraqigovernment, and the Iraqi military, for...all responsibility from the Iraqigovernment does not reflect the reality...hard about the failure of the Iraqigovernment to govern in an appropriate...

...And we most certainly are not in political control of Iraq. If we were, we wouldn't have acquiesced to the Iraqigovernment's desire for us to leave.Did Caesar ever cave to the popular will of Gaul?Some partisans will undoubtedly say...